Aliens in our world today

  

Are there aliens on earth today?

D.P. Weary, January 6, 2022

Alien: belonging to a foreign country or nation: a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living: a hypothetical or fictional being from another world: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world:  belonging or relating to another person, place, or thing.

 Did Jesus answer this question Himself?

These are Jesus’ words as He was praying to the Father. Jesus is speaking about His disciples and all those who will come to believe in Him.

 

[Jhn 17:6 ESV] "I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

[Jhn 17:9 ESV] I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

[Jhn 17:14 ESV] I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

[Jhn 17:15 ESV] I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

[Jhn 17:16 ESV] They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

[Jhn 15:18 ESV] "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

[Jhn 15:19 ESV] If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

[Jhn 17:20 ESV] "I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,

Yes indeed, there are aliens in our world today and if you are a born-again and Spirit-empowered believer in and disciple of the Lord Jesus, you are the alien.

When we think of aliens, we tend to think of them as superheroes or villains. They tend to have special powers and abilities. They often look like human beings, but really look like something different. Their basic nature and characteristics are different from human beings of the earth. They come from a place with different characteristics and physical laws from the earth. Even time itself is different from time on the earth.

So, if born again believers in the Lord Jesus are indeed aliens, do we fit the definition and our picture of “aliens”?

As aliens from “another world”, a world we call the Kingdom of God”, what are the characteristics of a citizen of the Kingdom of God?

1.    They can not die. They are eternal beings with imperishable bodies.

a.    [1Co 15:50-55 ESV] (50) I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. (51) Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. (53) For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. (54) When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." (55) "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"

b.    [Jhn 3:15-16, 36 ESV] (15) that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. (16) "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ... (36) Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

c.    [Jhn 5:24 ESV] (24) Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

d.    [Jhn 6:47 ESV] (47) Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

e.    [Jhn 10:28 ESV] (28) I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

2.    Reborn by the Spirit of God, a new creation.

a.    [1Pe 1:23 ESV] (23) since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

b.    [Jhn 3:5-6 ESV] (5) Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. (6) That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

c.    [2Co 5:17 ESV] (17) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

3.    Given special powers by the Spirit of God.

a.    [Act 1:8 ESV] (8) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

b.    [1Co 12:4-11 ESV] (4) Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; (5) and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; (6) and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. (7) To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. (8) For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, (9) to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, (10) to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. (11) All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

4.    Given great authority.

a.    [Mat 10:1 ESV] (1) And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.

b.    [Mar 3:15 ESV] (15) and have authority to cast out demons.

c.    [Mar 6:7 ESV] (7) And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

d.    [Luk 10:19 ESV] (19) Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

e.    [Luk 19:17 ESV] (17) And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

f.     [2Co 10:8 ESV] (8) For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.

g.    [Rev 2:26 ESV] (26) The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,

The power and the right to exercise that power, which is authority, that has been released to the saints of God to use on earth is to be used for specific things.

·         It is authority over evil spirits, demons, and the power of the enemy:  It is also authority over sickness and the authority to heal diseases. 

·         Matthew 10:1 He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.

·         Luke 9:1 When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases,

·         Luke 10:19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

·         Mark 6:7 Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits.

·         Mark 16:17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

·         It is the authority to bind and to loose things on earth.

·         Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

·         It is the authority to encourage and build up the saints of God on earth.

·         2 Corinthians 10:8 For even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than pulling you down, I will not be ashamed of it.

·         Titus 2:15 – These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.

·         It is the power and authority to be His witnesses in all the earth.

·         Acts 1:8 -  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”   (Matt. 28:18-19)

·         And to those who are overcomers and do His will to the end, He will give power and authority over the nations.

·         Revelation 2:26 To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations – (NIV)

·         The Church, Jesus’ bride, is to rule and reign with Him as kings and priests.  Lk. 12:32, Rev. 3:21, 1 Cor. 6:2-3, Jn. 17:22, Rom. 8:17, 1 Pet. 2:9.

5.    Are the Lord Jesus’ ambassadors on the earth.

a.    [2Co 5:20 ESV] (20) Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

6.    Are leaders and priests in the Kingdom of God.

a.    [Rev 5:10 NKJV] (10) And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.”

7.    Are given a specific assignment on the earth.

a.    [Mat 28:19-20 ESV] (19) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (20) teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

 

It is at this point that our initial question gets very uncomfortable. If the church is supposed to be these aliens from the Kingdom of God, then why does it not exhibit the characteristics of these aliens. More personally, if I or you are one of these aliens, are we living like it?

 

It is true that some people that go to church have not really been born again by the Spirit and are not aliens from the Kingdom of God. Others have never sought after the power and authority that the Lord gives His own through the Holy Spirit. But it is also true that most of us are not living up to the potential the Lord has given us. We are living in very peculiar times. So many of the signs of the times the Lord has given us regarding His second coming are happening all around us. It really does seem that we have entered the days the Lord calls the beginning of the birth pains (Matt 24:3-8). A new day, a new era is dawning and it is time for the true church to arise. Can we dare to believe that we, the born-again, Spirit empower, believers in and disciples of the Lord Jesus are the aliens God has sent into the world with unearthly characteristics, special powers, and authority to rescue people from a dark and evil world? Can we dare to start living fully into the fullness of who we really are in Christ Jesus?

 

[Mat 28:19-20 ESV] (19) Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (20) teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”